Posted on 09/26/2023 4:04:16 AM PDT by FarCenter
While Western pundits have warned that Ukraine’s prospects for a successful counteroffensive are bleak and that hopes of retaking Crimea have been dashed, Ukraine’s marine drones have consistently outmaneuvered the once-dominant Russian Navy, pushing it into retreat at sea.
Ukraine’s rising marine drone capabilities are still evolving, but as they advance, many expect more aggressive strikes against Russian naval assets in Crimea and across the Black Sea region as the war grinds ahead.
At the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion in early March 2022, the Ukrainian Navy sank its own flagship frigate, the seasoned Hetman Sahaidachny, to prevent its seizure. That left Ukraine with only a handful of riverine patrol vessels to engage Russia on the open sea.
Russia, on the other hand, had its full Black Sea Fleet at its disposal, including ships captured and reflagged from the Ukrainian Navy when Russia invaded and annexed Crimea. Ukraine lost over 80% of its naval capabilities in the 2014 Crimea invasion.
Despite boasting the world’s second-largest navy, over the past year Russia has been forced to relocate much of its Black Sea Fleet, including all its Kilo-class submarines, from Sevastopol in occupied Crimea to Novorossiysk farther east on the Black Sea coast in Russia – more than 570 kilometers away from Odesa and other targets in Ukraine.
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Former US Navy Admiral James George Stavridis remarked after the attacks, “We’re at a juncture in military evolution akin to the game-changers like Agincourt or Pearl Harbor. Expensive manned surface warships now face existential threats from affordable drones.”
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You are trying to live in an age that isn’t
And Putin has already hinted that he will use it.
We don’t ‘tolerate’ or agree with everything said here- but we allow it for educational purposes.
If you are only preaching to the choir you never learn anything any opposing parties are doing.
How long have you been here?
You can opposed our involvement with Ukraine without being a ‘Russophile’.
Do you believe that he and the media and democrats have stopped lying to us?
Are you a Biden fluffer?
You can opposed our involvement with Ukraine without being a ‘Russophile’.
Do you believe that Biden and the media and democrats have stopped lying to us?
Does that make you a biden lover?
Excellent points!
“You do realize” that bankrupt Russia has been unable to maintain their nukes to a high level of readiness forcing experts to agree that a high percentage of their nukes are probably not in working condition.
A long time. And, I’ve seen a lot of propaganda spinners zotted.
Biden is irrelevant
Supporting Russia is unAmerican
Hero Ukraine will be attacking ships of the Russian Navy in the Baltic next—take out that carrier they have been hiding for YEARS. Russia is finished as a great power. Their Nukes don’t work and they do not have the balls to fire them—or they would have by now. Time to roll into Russia proper with a few thousand Poles and marines we should be able to take Moscow and St. Petersburg in a week. The Russians are a nation of drunks and wimps—we see that how they run away from a big fight. Its all over the YOUTUBE Russians can’t fight. One Ukraine soldier and beat ten Russian conscripts. Now is the time to End Russia as a nation and cut her up.
Get after it.
Veni video vici
You’re the one claiming every day that Russia has lost. So, if Russia has lost why is there still fighting?
Today.
LOL! If could have, they would have.
“Free Republic does not support war crimes nor crimes against humanity”
If so, why do you support the ukraine and the democraps money laundering and human trafficking schemes there??
“You do realize Russia has the single largest nuclear force on the planet?”
I’ve seen estimates that they have 1500. But they are mostly old and they won’t work as intended without frequent and expensive maintenance. If I recall the US maintains 5000 or so. They are regularly maintained. The purpose of nuclear testing was to find the limits of how long they’d last in the silo. We have that data. The radiation deteriorates the triggers and there’s a variety of hydrogen that must be replaced periodically. My understanding is that Russia can no longer manufacture that variety of hydrogen. So, yes, they have them and they will cause damage, but probably not the damage they were intended to have.
Was the maintenance money they did have spent on maintenance or a villa in South of France? My money is on the villa in the South of France.
“That is irrelevant bravado”
As opposed to your pro-ukraine bravado??
“Why is Free Republic tolerating the lies propagated by Russian loving anti Americans?”
Basically, what you are demanding is censorship of material you don’t like. Typical liberal.
So said Charles XII, Napoleon, and Hitler.
Ukraine sea drones outsmarting Russia
Yep they can hit a Polish silos before the Russians can.
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